Category: ScratchJR
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How to GIF animations in Scratch: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
Hello, everyone! Today I want to show you a quick tutorial on how to incorporate GIF animations images into your Scratch projects. Imagine bringing dynamic, eye-catching animations to your creations. Let’s dive right in! Upload Your GIF To begin, open your Scratch project. If you have a GIF ready on your computer, like a spinning…
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How to Make a Geometry Dash Game on Scratch
Playing geometry dash is super exciting! So today we’re going to share how to make a geometry dash game on Scratch. In the geometry dash game, players control the movement of one character and navigate while avoiding obstacles such as spikes or collisions with blocks that instantly destroy the character. By the end of our…
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CODING CARDS
In this article, we will learn about coding cards, how they work, their advantages, and some of them on the market. Coding Cards is a programming game that funnily helps others learn about programming. Most often, these physical cards include snippets about how the code works and activities to improve the user skills and resolve…
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Coding Toys for kids 5-7 years old
Coding toys are a great way to get young children interested in coding. Kids can learn the basics of coding and computer programming by playing with coding toys. Various coding toys are available for kids, each a little different. In this post, let’s focus on Coding Toys for kids 5-7 years old. For example, some…
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Coding toy
Learning while playing is a beautiful way to acquire knowledge for everyone. But it is even more true for our little ones regardless of age. When you play, you free yourself from the stress that hinders learning through other methods. That’s why manufacturers have invested in coding toy construction. Coding toys allow us to learn…
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Why teach programming?
There are many exciting outcomes children can achieve when programming. That’s why teaching programming is so beneficial for kids. Programming enables children to create wonderful things and helps them acquire various skills that students can learn through thinking, analyzing problems, and designing solutions. Teaching programming in schools makes children aware of how computers work. It…
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Why ScratchJR?
Why ScratchJR? While Scratch is a fantastic interface for students who can read, kids younger than eight often confront difficulty understanding the concepts in Scratch. And those students that cannot read but have enough curiosity to explore can get frustrated when trying to navigate Scratch. For those, the Developmental Technologies (DevTech) Research Group at the Eliot-Pearson Department…
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ScratchJr Interface
With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) can program their own interactive stories and games. They learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer. Let’s know the ScratchJr interface. In the image below, we can see numbers to identify the parts, and then we can find an explanation of the functionality…
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Teaching Programming to 5 to 11 year-olds
The development at early age understanding computer science has an important impact on the way children grow up. That is why the primary curriculum includes topics for teaching Programming to 5 to 11-year-olds. It develops computational thinking learning to use computers not only as users but as creators too. So it doesn’t matter the choice…
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Programming for kids
Programming for kids depends on their ages. Let’s focus this post on 5 – 8 years old. Kids will not create and code software. However, their age is old enough to be introduced funnily in the exploration of computer science programming concepts. The list of coding options for kids ages 5-8 goes from those that…